As you may have heard, some countries (UEA and Saudi Arabia) will disable internet, email, internet messaging on Blackberries because RIM in motion has failed to provide the authorities there with access customer data for the purposes of national security. India has also been talking to RIM about the same. Now other regimes, like Indonesia are considering their own requests for the same. This will also apply to citizens of other nations visiting these countries. Now if you were planning to go to Dubai with your Blackberry, you should start thinking of making other internet arrangements or carrying enough Dhirams for use at the local cybers. Do I see a trend here? I think it is just a matter of time and all sorts of phones will be covered, and soon all regimes will be 'requesting' data for national security. Where does this leave us in KE? I can only imagine major players will be too happy to handover those email, websites and SMSs accessed through their systems. is the RIM setting a bad precedence?